AV P driver update scan. Scan or scam

[E. J. Jewell]

My wife has AVP free on her computer as her anti virus protection.

Yesterday a pop up appeared on her computer declaring itself to be AVP
Update and offering to scan her computer for any out of date drivers.
Assuming that this is a legitimate part of AVP it seemed like a good
idea so I told to go ahead. It downloaded some scanning software and
invited her to install it which she did. She ran it. It did not find
any out of date drivers but reported 28 "problems" on her computer which
it offered to fix. I was beginning to get suspicious but let her try
it. Immediately it asked for a payment of £20. At this point I smelt a
rat and advised her to close all the windows it had created.

Has anyone else seen this? Is it a legitimate part of AVP or a scam
masquerading as AVP?

[Graham J]

Post by E. J. Jewell
My wife has AVP free on her computer as her anti virus protection.
Yesterday a pop up appeared on her computer declaring itself to be AVP
Update and offering to scan her computer for any out of date drivers.
Assuming that this is a legitimate part of AVP it seemed like a good
idea so I told to go ahead. It downloaded some scanning software and
invited her to install it which she did. She ran it. It did not find
any out of date drivers but reported 28 "problems" on her computer which
it offered to fix. I was beginning to get suspicious but let her try
it. Immediately it asked for a payment of £20. At this point I smelt a
rat and advised her to close all the windows it had created.
Has anyone else seen this? Is it a legitimate part of AVP or a scam
masquerading as AVP?

It's a scam.

It will have installed malware which will now make the PC unuseable.

Install Malwarewbytes from http://www.malwarebytes.org/ and let it
update itself and run a full scan. You ought to repeat the scan for
every user account on the PC.